The first time Tom Kissner went to Japan to scout baseball players was 2002. It was months after Ichiro Suzuki won the American League MVP in his rookie season, and American interest in Japanese ...

"I know that I could go everywhere I wanted to in Japan and never see another scout," Ted Heid, the longtime Mariners Pacific ...

Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns is doing some scouting in Japan. According to Japanese baseball reporter Yakyu Cosmopolitan, Stearns was in Japan on Tuesday to see slugger Munetaka ...

Once again, there are several intriguing Japanese free agents looking to make the leap to MLB. This time, though, they won't ...

There is no Yoshinobu Yamamoto or Roki Sasaki in this year's crop of players from Korea or Japan. But there are powerful bats and live arms.

Could the New York Mets be in the mix for another Japanese phenom? Yakyu Cosmopolitan reported on Tuesday that Mets' president of baseball operations David Stearns was seen in Japan watching Japanese ...

The San Diego Padres lost to the Colorado Rockies on Friday, 3-0, dropping another game as they fight with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West title race. The pitching staff kept the ...

In the NPB’s Central League, Murakami had a .270 batting average over 892 game with the Swallows, hitting 246 homers with 647 ...